Biography

My work explores unstable boundaries between self and other, life and death, nature and artificiality, and reality and fiction. These are also spaces where the distinction between documentation and staging begins to dissolve, and reality quietly slips into fiction.

Through video, performance, and mirror-based installations, I explore shifts in bodily perception, time, and the experience of reality. Repeated actions and fragmented reflections displace the contours of events, producing visual and perceptual transformations.

Artificial objects that mimic living forms, together with materials suggestive of decay, reveal processes of generation and collapse, quietly transforming the boundaries between living and non-living states.

Through these materials and structures, my work unsettles bodily perception and the experience of time, allowing the unstable sensation of being “here and now” to emerge.

B.A.in Fine Arts at Middlesex University, England

M.A.in Art and Media at Osaka University

Live in Osaka and Kobe

‘Dream Island’, CAS, Osaka

‘Underneath the Twinkling Stars’, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna

‘Soap Opera’, Art-U room, Tokyo

‘Dune/Trip’, PH Gallery, NY

‘The Dark Hours of the Forest in the Red Room’, G-wings Gallery, Kanazawa
‘My Real Name’, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka

‘Outo’, Enghien les Bains Art Center, France
‘Wave’, Dawn Center, Osaka
‘Vomit’, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka

‘Peals’, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka

‘In-between’, msc Gallery, Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts, Kyoto

‘Project “Mirrors”‘, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto

‘Forcing House’, Art-U room, Tokyo

‘Voice’, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka

‘TEGAMI -Perspektiven japanischer Künstler- Tomoko Inagaki’, FRISE – Künstlerhaus Hamburg e.V.

‘Ghost’, Art-U room, Tokyo

‘Decalcomanie’, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka

‘Diary 2020’, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka

‘White Out’, CAS, Osaka

‘Face’, Mawa, Winnipeg, Canada

‘This Way and That’, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka

‘Unhouse’, OAG Art Center Kobe,Kobe

‘Dairy’, Quicksilver Gallery, London（Toured to Paris and Brussels）

‘Show Reel’, Gallery291, London
‘East End Collaboration 2000’, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London
‘Bang’, Standpoint Gallery, London
‘The Third Festival of Experimental Art and Performance’, Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg

‘The National Review of Live Art’, The Arches, Glasgow

Kobe Art Annual ‘Millefille’, Kobe Art Villege Center, Hyogo

‘Enter Human’, CCA Kitakyusyu, Fukuoka
‘Komorebi’, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki

Osaka・Art・Caleidoscope ‘Spring・Flower・Life’, CASO, Osaka
‘Art Court Frontier’, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
‘Pilot Plant’, (Tour Exhibition), Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo／CASO, Osaka
Bunkamura Art show 2004 ‘Landing’, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo

Selected for ‘Open Submission’, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
‘Mirage in Summer’, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi

Image Forum 2006, Tokyo

‘I meet…’ , CASO, Osaka

‘Bains Numeriques #3’, Centre des Arts Enghien les Bains, France
‘Nuitnumerique #6’, Centre Culturel Caint-Exupery, Reims, France
‘Talk & Exhibition 2008 – Video Art Activities’, Ox Warehause ,Macau

‘Twinism’, Kunsthaus,Hamburg / AD&A Gallery, Osaka

‘Transmediale.10’,the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Duo Exhibition ‘Tomoko Inagaki and Svenja Maass’, Kunstverein Harburger Barnhof, Hamburg
‘video_dumbo’,the Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn, New York

‘Nara Video Kotenpandant’, Nara City

‘Kyoto Current 2013’,Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art,Kyoto

‘I’m home’ Pre exhibition, Calo, Osaka
‘I’m home’, Jisen Center, Osaka

‘TEGAMI – Perspektiven japanischer Künstler’, Das Japanesche Haus, Leipzig
‘Gakuen Art Week’, Gallery GM-1, Nara

One to One Performance Festival ’WROUGHT’, Sheffield
Biennale Internationale Casablanca

’12 Messages -Marine’,+1 art,Osaka

‘Reading Fermentation’,+1 art,Osaka
‘Waves and Frequencies’, FRISE – Künstlerhaus Hamburg e.V. and toured to CAS,Osaka

‘HER/HISTORY’, Jisen Center, Osaka

‘Kyotentai’,+1 art,Osaka,　Toured to CAS, Osaka
‘Real Dream’, Kawakyu Museum, Wakayama

‘Kunst Party’, OAG Art Center Kobe, Japan

‘Sketch’ WE, OAG Art Center Kobe, Japan

‘WE THE DAY’, OAG Art Center Kobe
‘The Sound of A’, AOTO Art

CCA Kitakyusyu

‘ARCUS PROJECT 2004’

the 17th Art-Ex Osaka (Artist in Residence), Enghien les Bains, France

‘Kunstler zu Gast in Harburg’,Hamburg, Germany

‘Vermont Studio Center 2014′ U.S.

Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio, Hokkaido, Japan

Artist in Hibernation@Shinsyu,Nagano, Japan

Super Studio Kitakagaya, Osaka

Artist in residence program 2022、Kawakyu Museum, Wakayama
MAWA, Winnipeg, Canada

ART OMI, NY

Awarded for ‘Ray Finnis Award 1999’, England

Selected for the 5th Art Documents Support Program (ADSP) by Shiseido

Selected for ‘Image Forum 2006’

Supported by Art By Zerox

Nomura Foundation Art Grant
EU Japan Grant

Awarded for ‘eAT KANAZAWA Digital Creative Award 2012’

Shiseido Arts and Culture Support

Arts Support Kansai Grant
The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Grant

Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation Grant

Gyomu Super Japan Dream Foundation Grant

‘I’m home’ Pre exhibition, Calo, Osaka
‘I’m home’, Jisen Center, Osaka

‘Melting Point’ Sheffield, Hamburg, Osaka, Nagoya, Tokyo

Kishiwada Art Project 2017
Bamboo × Art: Encounter
Aisai Land, Osaka

The 9th Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions
Regional Partnership Program “Melting Point 2”
MEM, Tokyo

JISEN CONTEMPORARY SHORT FILM & VIDEO AWARD,　Jisen Center, Osaka

‘HER/HISTORY’, Jisen Center, Osaka

Director at ARTCA

Artistic Director at OAG Art Center Kobe

Director at AOTO Art